persephinae
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Every gen z human I know thinks AI is shit.
We can only imagine how productive they'd be if we spent the billions on training people rather than training AI.
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Scoop: Meta strikes multi-year AI deal with Reuters
It's the first news deal Meta has made in the AI era.
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Gen Z isn't just learning about AI — they're learning how to use it to become more productive, employable and potentially earn more reut.rs/3Tut8UK
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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i bet this would have been really cool to see in person www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvGS...
Hades in Concert - 'Ballads of the Underworld' (Concert Video)
YouTube video by Supergiant Games
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It's very "funny" this is happening at the same time the AI companies got away with stealing everyone's books
Spotify, already the bane of many podcasters' existence, has decided to amp things up: Now it's scouring podcasts to see if any infringe on "literary content." It's already flagged one podcast I host, which reviews/critiques an author's books one by one, for "infringing" on the book. This is dire.
I’m introducing a moratorium on our government’s use of facial recognition technology with Senator Markey. Every American deserves a reasonable expectation of privacy. We need to stop the constant, nonconsensual state of surveillance.
Starbucks launched with the explicit intention to emulate the coffee-n-conversation third space of European-style cafes, and American less-for-more capitalism has whittled it down to a sugar water firehose aimed at customers out of a hole in the wall.
the American Century of Humiliation continues
Hey its fucking wierd more of the dems platform isnt "we will give you abortion rights back"
We can’t allow this man to get within striking distance of a viable presidential candidacy.
Newsom has vetoed a bill that would have prohibited future governors from handing over abortion providers, helpers, and patients to red states for criminal prosecution. The bill also barred extraditions involving transgender care.
There's no trans woman in the WNBA. Still, Sophie Cunningham, Enes Kanter Freedom, and Caitlin Clark’s "fans" act like it's collapsing. @portianoir.bsky.social joins @angryblacklady.blacksky.app to dig into why—and where Imani's own theory fell short.
The Athletes Up In Arms Over A Nonexistent Trans WNBA Player
YouTube video by Rewire News Group
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America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
#BREAKING: In non-Missouri emergency docket news, #SCOTUS *grants* the Trump administration's request for a stay in the SAVE case, allowing DHS to have access to certain Social Security information. The three Democratic appointees dissent.
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
NEWS: I’m calling on FAA Administrator Bedford and Defense Secretary Hegseth to immediately reject Donald Trump’s plan to turn his golden vanity arch into a military complex. This plan is as dangerous as it is ridiculous. Full stop.
A New Mexico jury on Friday found Facebook liable for deceiving users about privacy protections on the social media platform. https://to.pbs.org/4iKeVNX
New Mexico jury finds Facebook liable of deceiving users about privacy protections
The trial centered on accusations that Facebook deceived users about a data breach stemming from a third-party personality quiz that harvested data from roughly 87 million profiles and sold it to a po...
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I remember when people looked at me funny for saying that the only way the business model and valuation of these genAI companies makes sense is if they believe they can control people’s most basic cognitive skills. Now the CEOs are just saying the quiet part out loud. futurism.com/health-medic...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Says That Sacrificing Our Children's Minds to AI Is a Price He's Willing to Pay
Thanks to AI, it won't matter if students can do multiplication, or even remember their own home address, tech billionaire Jensen Huang said.
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Yeah and that’s why the coffee being iced and iced coffee being seen as a more feminine drink preferred by younger people kind of explains people acting as if it’s unheard of and out of line.
I interview and hire people and I think I actually offer people coffee/tea/water when they arrive? If they had their own I would not care.
The decision by Cleveland Orchestra musicians and their union to strike has resulted in the cancellation of the concert scheduled for today in Ann Arbor, Mich. and Sept. 26 at Severance Music Center. ⤵️
come on man... i was actually thinking about getting a house soon
30-year fixed mortgage rate jumps sharply Thursday to 7.45%